jets and great job by a.j. tomorrow on "special report." president biden is expected to sign the chips bill into law and plus we will have previews of the primary races. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for "special report." "jesse watters primetime" starts right now. hello, gels jesse. have a great show. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: thank you very much, mike. >> life is not easy in joe biden's america. it's expensive out here. people are cutting back on all the essentials, gas, groceries, even housing. unlucky few are even forced to move in with their parents. >> here's the thing it will give us so much extra space in our room to give us activities please say yes. >> you don't need permission from us to build bunk beds you can do what you want you are adults. >> so -- >> jesse: adults want toes to shack up with the parent's

basement the ultimate sign of failure. >> bald men with no jobs and no money who live with their parents don't approach strange women. >> jesse: unless you are the child of washington royalty where mooching off mom and dad is a wave life. you get to fly to the most exotic country in the world play diplomat and count the money. we told you about hunter's escapades being bribed with chinese diamonds to funding a sex trafficking ring. we just found out hunter has some competition his name paul pelosi jr. as far as we can tell, he has never had a real job. the kind where you have to punch a clock. so what is paulie jr. do all day? well, last week, nancy snuck little paulie on her plane to asia. his name wasn't listed as part of the official delegation. they didn't want you to know paul went to asia with his mom. but if you look closely at the photos, there he is.

paulie p. jr. about as unqualified as hunter with all the big dogs there in asia. he was also caught by foreign recover froms in singapore and japan. the u.s. press, who covered every move nancy made in the pacific somehow never noticed that her son paul was along for the ride. he was even wearing the same purple tie he wore when he went to ukraine. oh, you didn't know he went to ukraine? well, yeah. we didn't either. you won't find any trace of this on the speaker's website. because she didn't want you to know about paulie jr. what was her son doing there? he is not elected official. he was greeted as royalty by the president of taiwan. watch. >> ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. speaker nancy pelosi, chairman meeks, senator, vice chairperson

bill banning, chairman chris, congressman kim, director al kurt. mr. pelosi, dear guests, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. >> jesse: we know mr. pelosi doesn't refer to paul pelosi sr. because he had a prior obligation last week as we have been reporting. now, if you check the speaker's website can you read the official transcript from that event that we played for you. but pelosi's office edited the part out of the transcript where they mentioned mr. pelosi. isn't nancy proud of her son? well, maybe not. back home in california, pauly has a bit of a reputation. they call him the fresh prince of san fran and if you thought hunter biden's business deals were shady, just wait. pauly jr. is on the payroll of two lithium mining companies and asia just happens to be a lithium gold mine and taiwan just happens to be a world

leader in lithium battery production. he is also heavily invested in singapore's energy sector. wasn't that another stop on nancy's trip? oh, it was. and shah sure looks like him right there. we have been calling and emailing the speaker's office all day to confirm this. they won't pick up the phone or write back but we need to know because these are valid questions. south korea is another place where the fresh prince. he struck up an ev battery deal there what do you know? nancy went to south korea, also. we didn't get any pictures of pauly there but maybe he took a quick trip himself to china alone. i mean, his mother has always been very interested in that country. >> just like pappa pauly, prince pelosi will go wherever the money is i mean where his mother is. and he has a history of screwing people just not in the same way hunter does.

five separate federal investigations are circling pelosi jr.'s company. paul pelosi was allegedly, quote: hired by several firms that were subject to both federal and state probes and meanwhile has connections to a host of fraudsters, rule breakers and convicted criminals. nancy pelosi talks a great game about protecting seniors but not the prince. one of his companies is being investigated for scamming sick and gullible elderly people out of their money. doesn't stop there. pelosi's investment company which the fec said was run by fraudsters got caught up in a slew of scandals including a massive crypto scam. classy. the feds each probed jr. for bribing city newspaperrers looking into his girlfriend's flop house. the fresh prince tried to pay them off by cutting a check for the rugby team, but the prince

always escapes, doesn't he? maybe that has something to could tao with nancy stacking the deck with cronies at the fec or the fbi only has eyes for trump. >> by the way his former girlfriend karina fang who was born in taiwan of all of places? sued the prince alleging he stole from her and even threatened her is paul pelosi jr. really just hunter biden without the crack pipe? we don't know. we're just asking questions. where have we heard this story before? if you are one of the five families you get to fly around on government planes, take taxpayer funded trips. meet and greet foreign leaders and have dinners overseas with executives eager to do business with rich american political families. these politicians are supposed to be doing business for you not their family. and we keep catching them red-handed. joe biden just lies about it and says i don't know anything and nothing ever happened. and nancy pelosi's office is

just hiding it. there are pictures of paul jr. all over asia and they are trying to scrub the evidence of it. i mean, and this is just on the heels of major insider trading allegations with paul sr. and now the son is sneaking around and sniffing out deals in the far east on your dime literally a week later. and the american press corps, they don't care. looks like they are in on the cover-up. peter schweizer author of red-handed how american elites get rich helping china win and president of the government accountability institute joins me now. this is pretty shocking not only did he fly over there on the heels of this insider trading allegation with the dad trying to hide all evidence of it. scrubbing transcripts. there is no pictures from the american press. what the heck is going on here, peter? >> yeah. jesse. this is a particularly cynical and gulling mo by the pelosis. first of all as you pointed out paul pelosi sr.

nancy's husband has been under scrutiny for insider trading issues. the stock trades. he has to disclose his finances because he is the spouse of nancy pelosi. your adult children do not need to disclose their financial transactions. so, it seems like they switched attention to their son's commercial activities but to even a tighter note on this, jesse, look at what is happening here. nancy pelosi is flying to the asian pacific region as the entire region is nervous and scared about the looming threat posed by china. and you have got the speaker of the house coming in with a couple of other democrats. they certainly want to have her good favor and here all of a sudden her son is a along for the trip. is he not a foreign policy adviser. he has no background, looking for business deals this is what you call leverage. this is the sort of stuff you would expect from the mafia where you kind of create a demand for your own services and the kind of services that paul

pelosi jr. is offering are very reminiscent of hunter biden's by the way. they are vegas. vague, they areconsulting. offering advisory services. they don't actually have some product they are trying to sell. it's particularly a gulling and cynical move. i applaud you for covering this because the rest of the mainstream media is totally ignoring this story. >> jesse: why do you think they are ignoring this story? because we said at the outset she had a gaggle of american reporters, recover froms, camera men, print people along for the ride. and they saw her and reported on her taking her little shopping trip. you know, walking through everywhere, shaking hands with all of these asian leaders and paul is right there. the son is right there. i mean, so they knew the son was on the trip. but they purposefully hid that from the american public. what does that tell you? >> well, i money, the most hospitable thing you could say is this is a somewhat

complicated story and maybe they are lazy. but it's not that complicated, jesse. the bottom line is the most of the establishment media. they want access. the same reason that we started covering hunter biden in 2018. the fact that he went on air force 2 with his father to beijing, china, to close deals with the chinese government, the media didn't want to cover it because they want access to nancy pelosi and guys like joe biden. and then, of course, there is, let's be blunt about it the ideological bias. you have got people in the mainstream media that believe that donald trump is an existential threat to the american republic and anything we do to report honestly or fairly on his political opponents is somehow aiding and abetting him and we can't have that so they put their thumb on the scale. that's not their job. that's the job of voter to decide who their leaders are. it should be the job and the role of the media to report the facts and the facts here are

clear-cut. if donald trump jr. had traveled with his father conducting business deals overseas on air force 1, we certainly would have heard about it, as we should hear about it, but we are not going to hear about it with nancy pelosi because they have their thumbs on the scale. >> jesse: all right, peter, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, jesse. >> jesse: we have a breaking fox news alert. ♪ >> jesse: the fbi has raided former president trump's home in mar-a-lago. feds were executing a search warrant. president trump issued a statement on the raid saying this: these are dark times for our nation as my beautiful home, mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. it is prosecutorial misconduct. the weaponization of a justice system and an attack by radical left democrats who desperately don't want me to run for president in 2024.

dana loesch is a nationally syndicated radio host and joins me now. dana, this is just breaking. he has just announced this on social media. your reaction? >> i'm stunned, jesse. i mean, this was not the news that i think any of us were expecting to read about on a monday evening. i would love to see what warrant, what reasoning they gave in the warrant. of course, you know, i don't really know how much faith i want to put into warrants regarding trump or regarding this cross fire hurricane or whatever nonsense being cooked up at this point jesse we don't have anything but a wrist slap for kevin clinesmith a guy who actually doctored emails removing exculpatory information from the cia in order to obtain fisa warrant spy on innocent americans helping out with trump's campaign in 2016. i'm not sure i put a lot of stock in a lot of institutions. i'm going to tell you something, jesse, democrats are gambling here. the fbi is being accused of being too involved in presidential elections.

not just in 2016 but also in 2020. if this unless they walk out with something huge, and they better walk out with something huge if you are doing something like this, but i seriously doubt it, because everything else that they have accused trump of has been a bust they are gambling because i don't think americans have any faith at all whatsoever to give these institutions that have been so far held unaccountable from the taxpayer and voter. >> jesse: this is going to absolutely enrage the country, especially the republican base. a base that is clearly behind the expresident. you look at the cpac straw poll dominating it. you look at the straw poll they did for the turning point event he dominated it. is he clearly the frontrunner to seize the republican nomination. and polling now shows that he is going to defeat joe biden in 2024 if that's the matchup. so to then send fbi agent, we

assume this is merrick garland at the department of justice, joe biden's attorney general to send fbi agents to mar-a-lago to the home of the president, you know, before midterm election, in the run-up to a presidential election, is insane, is insane, dana. and the people of this country are not going to go for this. >> what a gambit. and keep in mind, too. i know, jesse, you have talked about this, this is the same fbi as well who sat on hunter biden's laptop for a year and you had all of these -- you have all of these intelligence officials that signed this statement saying that it was all nothing but russian collusion. now they are all admitting that it's real. they are only using it as a cuddle to prevent biden from running again to sabotage gavin newsom for 2024 because biden is too much of an embarrassment. i don't know which biden or his son i don't know which at this point. you are absolutely right. i don't have no idea what they're thinking about doing this before midterms.

we are 90-ing so games out. i can't remember the days anymore. right out of midterms. so far this has not provided anything. it has not produced anything. it has only added questions. democrat doing this when we have inflation, we have a recession. we have problems at the border, this is just nothing more than democrats trying to settle political scores. like it has been from the very beginning. this is a dangerous game they are playing and they have the audacity to accuse everybody else of being insurgents or excuse me patience parents of being terrorists. fisa surveillance on innocent american, when you have the irs targeting people. we were going -- jesse, we were originally talking about the irs tonight and now you have the double irs expansion. i am almost without words about the stunt the governing party in the united states continues to poll to protect their power. it's a dangerous game. >> jesse: we were told the fbi wasn't going to get involved in

any politically charged search warrants, investigations, announcements, indictment before an election. we were told that. remember what they did with the crooked situation with the server. they made all sorts of announcements then. they investigated the trump campaign then. you saw what they did in october by covering up the laptop. and now they are going to send agents into mar-a-lago before the midterm election? this is not what we were told the fbi was going to do. especially, dana, on the heels at what we did at the top of the show laid out paul pelosi sr., suspiciously involved in insider trading with the wife, nancy, and then be she takes her son to this asia trip and tries to hide it while he has lithium investments, ev battery investments all over these asian countries. they are trying to cover it up. nothing gets done with hunter. trying to push that off. little tax thing make that go away. evidence they were holding 10 for the big guy.

diamonds have being exchanged. there is like 150 flags from treasury that there there was suspicious wire transfers coming from all these countries, china, russia, ukraine into the biden family bank accounts that were all co-mingled and you are sending agents to mar-a-lago? did they get the address wrong, dana? >> exactly. i just -- i'm amazed because there is more evidence to implement the biden administration than ever -- actually nothing has been there for the trumps. everything they have accused that former first family of seems like it's the bidens who have done it. you talked about paul pelosi or nancy pelosi's son his involvement in some of this green energy stuff. i know there is an investigation currently ongoing, you know, with the russian collusion stuff. with hunter biden and his involvement, his investment firm and what part it played in chinese. acquiring for china huge cobalt

mine instrumental with rare earth elements and cv how much does this the family stand to make from the deal. try to settle the score of somebody like hillary clinton and democrats still enraged with this day enraged at voters the system that empowered the voter and enraged at all the of the people to dare challenge their control. this is all an ongoing tantrum from this party because they were 'vested in 2016 by the american voter and honestly, are they trying to prevent it from happening again? >> jesse: they raided trump's office trump's other attorney's office rudy giuliani. they raided other members of the campaign. how is it possible just raid everybody's home that's associated with president donald trump? everyone's home gets raided? they kick the door down. >> roger stone. >> jesse: rocialg stone's home raided early in the morning. >> not to mock his age or

anything. he is an elderly man and his wife is an elderly woman. elderly couple living in florida and they had the media tipped off. they were waiting outside lights ready to go. amazing how many photos were taken before they even got inside his house. the media was tipped off before he was. and they made a very big -- they made big theater of it there is just, jesse, there is just too many things here that are out in broad daylight for voters, for americans to see. we have a lot of questions. i mean, we see how poorly it's going for this administration. is this just a distraction? are they trying to distract us from the horrific economy? are they trying to distract us from the loss of wages and the loss of jobs and the recovery that was towarded by his trillion-dollar rescue plan right out of the gate? we have to have ask these questions because all of the stuff they accused trump of is ofar they have not provided any kind of substance to back up these claims. i'm tired of hearing about

russia. entire of hearing about comey is coming. comey never came. he left. guess what? all of this stuff with russia looks more to implicate the biden administration than it ever did trump. i'm so tired of this tantrum from this party. >> jesse: we are going to have more details on this fbi raid of mar-a-lago. this sun press kented in history. we will continue to cover the rest of the story throughout the hour. dana, thank you so much and we will be right back. >> thank you, jesse. ♪ ♪ ks... choose stelara® from the start... and move toward relief after the first dose... with injections every two months. stelara® may increase your risk of infections, some serious, and cancer. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you have an infection, flu-like symptoms, sores, new skin growths, have had cancer, or if you need a vaccine. pres, a rare, potentially fatal brain condition,

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jess jetion we're back with a breaks fox news alert. the feds have raided former president trump's home. the issuing a statement these are dark times for our nation as my beautiful home mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. this unannounced raid on my home

was not necessary or appropriate it is prosecutorial misconduct. the weaponization of the justice system and an attack by radical left democrats who desperately don't want me to run for president in 2024 joining me now with details chief washington correspondent mike emanuel. >> jesse, good evening. fox news has confirmed the raid of former president trump's mar-a-lago home with a law enforcement source familiar with a search warrant. per standard protocol fbi director christopher wray and attorney general merrick garland were aware of this. they would have been fully briefed and will continue to be the former president announcing that raid a short time ago calling this dark times for our nation as his home in palm beach, florida is being raided and, quote: occupied by a large group of fbi agents. president trump saying nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the united states before. the former president's claiming prosecutorial misconduct, what he describes as a weapons of the justice system he also describes it as attack by radical left

democrats who desperately don't want mr. trump to run for president in 2024. the fbi agencies even broke into his safe. is he comparing this to watergate where operatives broke into the democratic national committee but the former president says the difference between this and watergate is democrats broke into the home of the 45th president of the united states. the context of this comes as, of course, there have been high profile hearings on capitol hill by the january 6th commission shearing information with the justice department what we don't know why now what specific federal authorities are looking for at the mar-a-lago estate. bottom line the president breaking this news a short time ago himself and we have only a few details from federal authorities at this point. jesse? >> jesse: okay, mike, you have to assume they went in interest and aseized all kinds of electronic communications we know they broke into the safe

and retrieved whatever is in there as well. we are talking about written documents. documents that could have been there from his time as president. there could have been tax documents. documents that he would have there for decades. we don't know what exactly they seized. we have to assume they seized pretty much everything. there has to be zero trust of the fbi when it comes to political operations like this. after the russia collusion situation. that hoax, which was determined to be a hoax since there was no actual collusion as determined by special counsel robert mueller and then you have what they did with the whistleblowers according to what we heard with recent reports before the last election covered up all sorts of information with the laptop of hunter biden before that election. and now this right before a midterm election. i mean, we are talking about three elections in a row, mike, that the fbi has been heavily involved in on the side of the democrats. do you think this country is

going to handle this well? i don't. >> well, there is obviously speculation about president trump's future. he was at the cpac convention in dallas over the weekend where he won a straw poll there with a very large conservative group and so all kinds of speculation about whether he is going to announce another run for the white house. before the midterms or potentially after the midterm election. so there is a whole lot of politics involved with this. but, you better believe it's unclear what they were looking for but this is about as high profile of a raid as you would get. going into the home of a former president of the united states and so one would expect to be very thorough. not entirely clear what exactly they were looking for but probably, as you suspect, if it's a large group of fbi agents, they are probably grabbing all kinds of things but we don't know exactly what they are looking for jesse. >> jesse: thanks a lot, mike. it's not just going into the home of a former president. buck sexton joins me now. former cia officer. you are going into the home of a

presidential candidate. he hasn't announced yet but everybody assumes he is running for president. this is after they went after his campaign with wiretaps and other federal investigative raids. this is insane, buck. >> jesse, almost feels like preemptive coup. we heard about the insurrection. this is meant to prevent donald trump from being able to run again. everyone is very aware. >> fact that democrats have been preparing and they have been talking about this for quite some time. and the notion that somehow suddenly there is this great need to go around all the cooperation, all the agreements, all the documents, everything that has been given up to this point for a raid on the former president's residence? i mean, i don't get upset or rattled easily about politics in this country. i know you don't, either. this is the rubicon being crossed. this is something we have never seen before. this is something that is outrageous and the usage of the fbi in this way is really the nail in the coffin for so many

americans as to whether you can trust the fbi or doj. clearly not on political matters. >> this is also about respect. you have a former president of the united states. he is due respect. he has a slew of attorneys that can negotiate the release of documents that are needed. you don't have to go into his home with crowbars and go into his safe. if this is something that is going to be that sort of deal, then he has got thousands of lawyers on stand by. the justice department can just call the lawyers. we need this i'm sure he will hand it over. but you don't kick in the door. do you not kick in the door like that. >> i think we have to also take this as now a -- there is a likelihood that they are going to try bring a federal indictment against former president trump. i think now because if they don't, what they have shown us is thug police state tactics

going right into the election season before the democrats are about to get annihilated after all the bad decision-making so they have to see this through, jesse. means they might actually bring the charges. >> jesse: you are freezing the republican primary electorate. you are saying this guy, who is running, most likely, could be under federal indictment. he may not be able to be the president because he could be indicted on felony charges. so you are basically telling them don't vote for the guy in the primary because, you know, we got him in the crosshairs. it's also a blackmail scandal because they are going to seize all of this information, private information, you are thinking taxes, you are thinking written documents. you are thinking all kinds of stuff he has. you just hold it out there. and you don't even need to indict him. you just have the fbi have this information and hang it over his head. and that's what they did with dossier as well. they said oh, we know some things that may have happened in a hotel room. comey said let me tell you about

them. we might have some information about something you did in moscow. we are looking into it. this is how they roll, buck. buck buck it's amazing to sees a well, jesse, are a all of the hearings in congress. all of the january 6th january e and all this other nonsense they don't trust the american people to make up their minds on their and settle it through the peaceful means of a political process. this is trying to subvert that the people who lecture us all the time, democrats, about democracy, don't actually believe in its exercise. they just use it as a talking points. they use it now actually as something to bludgeon people who disagree with them politically. you are undermining our institutions. this is undermining our faith in the not only the peaceful transfer of power but in the executive arm of the government under an opposition party not to act like the secret police we have seen totalitarian regimes. this is crazy. everyone has to understand they ordered a raid on former president trump's home? based on, what? in what world would they not

have been able to go to court and get the documents they wanted? in what world? remember what they did to roger stone they pulled him out dozens of long officers, long guns. stone comes out in pajamas. what do you want? could i get you a cup of tea. they are sending a message to president trump and to his supporters that they will come for you if you stand against a machine. this is a chilling moment in the country's history. >> jesse: buck sexton thank you for joining us on this really scary evening. let's go to dan bongino the host of unfiltered on saturday night. dan your emotional action. i think everyone is a little emotional here about this raid. >> yeah. i mean, you think? this is some third world bullshit right here. let me say it again third world bullshit. i mean every word of that i don't care that it's cable news. i was a federal agent. i raised my right hand. and i swore to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. and i love this country. this is a freaking disgrace.

a disgrace. we don't live in cuba. we don't live under kim jong un. we live in a constitutional republic. a representative democracy. you have a bunch of fbi agents raiding the home of a former president because they don't like his politics? are you kidding me? you spent this whole show, jesse, and i have spent my entire time either on fox or on my podcast exposing the left for claiming russia interfered in an election hillary clinton paid off a bunch of foreign agents, her team literally, to fabricate a story that occupied the nation for four years. what is she doing right now? getting a manicure in freakin' chappaqua. she is not doing squat. nothing. hunter biden is having sex on tape while doing crack, while doing crack. and what is he doing?

he is living in a malibu mansion and, yet, the president, the former president, who whether you agree with him or not, on his claims about the election, whether you agree or not, we still live in a country where you are allowed to challenge an election. there is even a process. the eca. the electoral counteract. you may not like it. but it's a process. how do i know it's a process? because some people are trying to reform it. you may not like it, but now you send the fbi -- let me tell you something, i have paid due deference to the fbi for a long time and a lot of listeners didn't like it because i worked with some very good people over there who have since retired. the management of the fbi has now shredded any single shred, credibility this agency had left. nobody will take them seriously from this point on. it is over. you have heard the example. stone, manafort, cohen over and over. are they good guys or bad guys? i don't know. i don't care.

i don't know them. all i'm telling you is you cannot tell me restill live in a constitutional republic and not the freakin' third world when you have hillary clinton paying foreign agents to foreign election. people lying under oath. hunter biden doing crack on tape what happens where are the federal agents? they are not in malibu or chappaqua, they are in mar-a-lago. this is some third world garbage that happened tonight. and i'm telling you the fbi management, here's the solution, last thing we have now got to win in 2022. you have no choice now, folks. oh we don't like the swampy republicans. i don't like them either. republicans may not be the solution to your problem but democrats are certainly the cause of all your problems right now. if there was ever a clarion call to remove your as from the seat and go vote in 2022, this is it. there has to be not only hearings, but a total, total house cleaning at the top of the doj and fbi. when the left is complaining about one firing, fire 10 more

people the next day. and then when the "new york times" starts crapping their diaper and whining about it, fire 100 more people the day after that. until you can get people in there who aren't republicans, who aren't democrats, but who believe in our constitution like i did. i was going to give my life to protect barack obama i'm not going to be lectured a hole leftist about anything. they didn't see my kid crying fly around the world to protect. i it my job. this is embarrassing. there should be a massive house cleaning i'm telling you please, god, i'm begging to you vote in 2022 or you may not recognize this place afterwards. >> jesse: i think people are going to flood to the polls in november. i think there is going to be some more action you are going so-to-see out on the streets from the base after they see this break tonight because this base is very loyal to this president. and i'm not even talking about

the base. i think there is a lot of honest americans that have had it with this corrupt government and what the fbi has done. there's more from the statement from the president. he says the political persecution of president donald j. trump has been going on for years now will the fully gee bunked russia, russia, russia scam impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two and so much more it never ends. it is a political targeting at the highest level. hillary clinton was able to delete and acid watch 33,000 emails after they were subpoenaed by congress. absolutely nothing has happened to hold her accountable. she even took antique furniture and other items from the white house. i stood up to america's bureaucratic corruption. i restored power to the people. and truly delivered for our country. like we have never seen before the establishment hated it. as they watched my endorsed candidates win big victories and see my dominance in all polls.

and they are trying to stop me. and the republican party wants more. the lawlessness, political persecution and witch-hunt must be exposed and stopped. i will continue to fight for the great american people. it's not just about the maga movement. it's not just about the republican party. this is much, much bigger than politics. this is explosive and dangerous stuff the biden administration has done. and i think they are going to pay a serious price for this. dan bongino, i will give you one final reaction. >> i just want to say in closing, listen, america, they are laughing at you. the left thinks this is hilarious. if you doubt me, just go to any of their goofy platforms, twitter or elsewhere right now. they think this is hilarious. do you know what's really hilarious? you going out tomorrow if you are not registered tomorrow and doing it that's really hilarious. this is going to get really ugly if you don't vote in 2022. remember the mark the date,

folks. it is now 7:40 eastern time on the jesse watters show august the 8th. remember the date i told you this you are not going to recognize your country if you don't fix this and sap. >> >> jesse: joe biden was elected and promised to bring people together and calm things down after the trump's presidency, and he just burned everything to the ground with what his administration did tonight. this is insane. dan bongino, thanks for joining us. >> thanks. >> jesse: now let's go to fox news national correspondent matt finn who had details about what was taken from mar-a-lago by the fbi. >> jesse, the "new york times" reports the search, according to two people familiar with the investigation, appears to be focused on material that mr. trump had brought with him to mar-a-lago, his private club and residence after he left the white house. those boxes contained many pages of classified documents according to a person familiar with their contents. the "new york times" reports mr5 boxes of material requested by

officials with the national archives for many months only doing so when there became a threat of action of those boxes or documents being taken. the associated press also reports the justice department has been investigating boxes of records containing classified information allegedly taken to mar-a-lago after president trump's presidency concluded. it is not clear whether the fbi search was connected to the probe of those boxes or documents. fox news mark meredith reports that former president trump is in new york city tonight. he was not at mar-a-lago during the time of the raid. jesse? >> jesse: all right, thanks, matt. let's bring in chazin chaffetz fox news contributor. jason, what do you think happened tonight, do we have him? >> yeah. there is absolutely no justification, jesse. absolutely no justification. i delegate with this. -- dealt with this.i was the ce oversight committee did i issue subpoenas on hillary clinton. at the time she had no security clearance. none. there were thousands of

documents in her safe. they had no security clearance. do you know what? nobody was prosecuted. nobody was raided. nobody went in there in the dead of night. none of the media was given this the media by and large didn't each report it. the president of the united states, a former president of the united states has a security clearance. he also has a scif. they have secure facilities that they created there at mar-a-lago. the president has executive privilege. so he has -- he has classified clearance. he does have a scif. he is allowed to possess these types of documents. and if you disagree, then you have got to go to court. you have got toe have a way not banana republic like this action is. go to court, make your case, allow the president to defend himself in this case. but that's not what is happening here. i want to see these -- i want to see merrick garland up there and i want to understand exactly how in the world they can justify going in and breaking into a safe of a former president of the united states. they have no business doing that

none whatsoever. >> jesse: chris wray has to be fired by the next republican president. got to be fired on day one. don't even wait. fire him right off the jump. because this guy is so corrupt. comes in and cleans up comey's mess with the russia collusion hoax. doesn't do anything to anybody. holds nobody accountable. lets the whole thing slide. has agents cover up with the laptop. they didn't the laptop at first. they got interested when the post was about to break the story. seize the laptop and don't do anything with it before the election they cover it up. now we are learning that he comes out and hatches a fake plot against gretchen whitmer to make the trump movement look bad before the election. meanwhile his fbi own agents entrapped those guys. a jury concluded. and then he doesn't necessarily fire any of those guys involved in the entrapment. he puts the guy ahead of that whole division in charge of the washington field office and then yesterday or was it last week he goes on to this hearing on the

senate i have got to run. i got to go. i can't answer any more questions. he takes the fbi jet to retreat in adirondack mountains. he went on a vacation so he didn't have to answer any more questions. i don't see how this guy has any credibility whatsoever, jason. he has got to go. >> totally agree with you, jesse. the other thing is, i will tell you what. donald trump has been the most open and transparent president i have ever been around. when the mueller probe came in, what did he do? he allowed don mcqana his gin counsel go and talk te'o you can to him. donald trump jr. went up there multiple times and testified. they did everything. they gave him the political enema of his life. donald trump set there and let them do it. guess what? they came up with zero. they didn't have a single thing on donald trump. and they tried every trick in the book. but this is a new low, jesse. this is absolutely unprecedented. i don't know of any justification that they can possibly do this. and the other question i have is where is the secret service?

you know what? these are two different department of justice, yes. but homeland security, you are there to protect the president. i want to see the security clearances of each one of those fbi agents that dared to go on to those grounds and if the fbi overstepped their bounds, why isn't the secret service doing their job? >> jesse: we are learning it actually was agents from the fbi's d.c. field office that conducted this raid. that was the field office that is now being overseen by the agent who was in charge in detroit that cooked up that fake gretchen whitmer kidnapping plot. the miami field office was notified just beforehand. we have now -- i'm going to let you go, jason. we have jonathan turley who is a constitutional attorney and fox news contributor joining us. your reaction to this insane raid? >> well, it's a breathtaking moment to have a raid like this on a former president and potentially the future opponent of the current president.

my first reaction beyond shock is that it is baffling how this raid would occur but merrick garland decided not to appoint a special counsel. if there was evidence that supports a warrant, and apparently a federal judge found that evidence, why didn't merrick garland ask for a special counsel to be appointed? you know, people like archibald cox and others are celebrated because we appointed a special counsel to look into nixon. why? it was because we wanted to assure the american people that an investigation would not be political, would not be influenced in that case by nixon himself. now, here you have the past opponent of the current president and the expected future opponent. i can't imagine how attorney general garland would look at that situation and not see an absolute necessity for a special counsel. and, instead, they did this raid

on this -- on the former president's home. and it is going to trigger the anger that you have already seen. now, we don't know what these charges are. the assumption is that it is related to january 6th. >> we have seen warrants being issued from a grand jury. i have expressed skepticism over the ability to charge the president on the evidence that we have seen thus far in that committee. but, for me, there is a threshold question of who should be ordering these types of raids? make garland has refused to appoint a special counsel in hunter biden. he apparently has not appointed a special counsel in this case thus far. i just can't understand why. >> jesse: you are going to see reaction tonight and tomorrow. they are going to ask joe biden. he is going to be in delaware not doing anything. you are not going to really probably be able to talk to him personally. he will probably put out a statement probably actually

won't hear from chris wray because is he not allowed to talk about any ongoing investigations. that's what they say they can't talk about ongoing investigations. so are you going to hear from merrick garland? are you going to hear tomorrow or tonight on camera from the attorney general about what the heck he is doing here? are we going to get that or not? >> yeah. i would expect that we have some statement. given the historic nature of this raid. the justice department does not talk about ongoing prosecutions and the evidence or details or direction. they don't reveal information of that kind. but they do respond to public moves like this one. you know, this is occurring shortly before the midterm elections when the justice department has a rule to discourage any move that might influence the election. i think that you could have some type of statement being made tomorrow to explain why this

occurred at this time. but, there are these lingering questions of how this is being handled. this country is deeply divided. and, frankly, we are living in this age of rage. i would have thought that attorney general garland would be more sensitive to that in how this type of historic raid would occur to just have a raid out of the blue like this, without having an independent investigator, i think is reckless. >> jesse: it's reckless and as we have discussed all throughout the evening, nothing like this has ever happened before. and we have had a lot of criminal politicians or a lot of crooked politicians that go in and do this and too a little of that. not like this. no one has ever sent the fbi into the home of a former president or a former presidential candidate, ever in u.s. history. >> i think that's right. now, i do think that we all have to wait to see what the basis of

this warrant is. a judge obviously looked at this and said that there was sufficient evidence to support the warrant. >> jesse: what kind of judge -- let me stop you. what kind of judge would they take this to? do they take it to a d.c. judge or florida judge? >> they would. you would take to a federal judge to see if they have alleged in that application enough to allow for this type of search to occur. a judge obviously found there was sufficient evidence. now, we will have to take a look at what was the crime being alleged here? we already know that the compound was this subject of an earlier search in terms of classified material and presidential records. the assumption is that this deals with january 6th but, what i'm intrigued about is what new evidence there is to support this type of extraordinary raid. if the evidence is no more than what we saw in the january 6th committee, i would be frankly shocked that this type of raid

occurred at this time. but, we have to wait and we have to see. because we are now at -- working in the blind here. but, that's one of the reasons i think there is an expectation or a legitimate one that the justice department will make some type of statement as to why this occurred at this time and to give us some notion of what is occurring with a former president and a potential candidate to be the next president. >> jesse: we are hearing now and this is on cbs that these things that were seized related to classified materials not involved with january 6th. i repeat not involved with january 6th. that makes me think didn't hillary clinton have classified documents in her house? the fbi didn't raid her house and kick down the door in chappaqua. a lot of those documents were destroyed. others were handed over in a

negotiated settlement. i don't understand why he gets a different type of treatment than hillary clinton. you said something before well, a federal judge had to have signed off on it well we got judges that signed off on those warrantless wiretaps on the campaign and those judges were mislead. they were given misleading documents, forged documents, and that was all based on information that was fraudulent. so, yeah. mane a federal judge signed off on it but it doesn't make it holy. >> yeah, the information you just shared is of course new. if this is related to classified documents still in his possession it, would be an extension of the earlier search that was conducted. i'm rather surprised by it because this those to the presidential records act. i just testified on this issue, including trump's status in congress under the pra. and there has been a lot of tension between the archives and former president trump over his

retention of documents. now, this act has largely not been criminalized in this sense. this is really extraordinary to have a raid like this occur. and it's not clear what evidence they have that he intentionally withheld classified information. the reason it would be zeroous, serious,jesse he was given the opportunity to turn over documents. if he retained some knowingly, the justice department can say that that is a clear crime. because he, at that point, obviously was a former president and had been ordered to turn over that material. that may change the position of this. it's still an historic moment and it's going to be troubling because you have to look at how far this will be seen by many people in the country. we have gone through years of trauma and there have been legitimate questions about bias in the fbi. that's why i have been in huge

advocate of a special counsel. to take this away from the biden administration and the justice department to assure half the country is this is not something the result of political bias. >> jesse: yeah. as you said and we are going to let you go thank you so much professor turley this has never been criminalized before this retention of classified records or presidential records. they have never made this a criminal matter before but now apparently they are if cbs is reporting accurately which we don't know that's i would we have put it on cbs. buck, still, insane, i can't think of another word for it but insane. >> let's think about what the threshold would have to be. i have secret clearance at the cia. i know all the rules laws what is involved there. for them to go and send an fbi raid into the former president's home over documents that there may be some dispute as to with whether they are a part of presidential record. there may be dispute as to

whether they are -- but the threshold for actually sending people in under the threat of force effectively, the fbi comes in with guns and says we are coming into your home one way or the other, that's extraordinary. so what could possibly be at issue here that it would make this level of fbi involvement in any way justified not only legally but you have to look at politically. there is a broad every issue, a broader question. i would remind everybody at home they have lied about president trump when it comes to criminality involving his taxes, involving russia collusion. find an area of criminal law and at some point or another a false case about trump that has gone nowhere. are we now to believe on the retention of classified documents they finally got him? are we really to believe at this point in time donald trump after everything elsewhere they either fabricated evidence, they lied, they smeared. now they got him. jesse it, does not add up. it looks like to everybody

watching this a political hit. especially given the timing of this and joe biden is dotterring around and he is not able to run again. it looks like desperation that is led with a nastiness and undermining of the constitution. >> jesse: if joe's numbers would be the mid 40's there is no way they would do this raise. this is old stuff from "the washington post they worthed earlier. this presidential records act violation has occurred in almost every single presidency. there is some issue for retention of presidential records. there is a give and take. we have the clintons they took here reporting "the washington post" $28,000 worth of furnishings from the white house back to chappaqua they said it was a gift. obviously that was negotiated. now they are going after paperwork. it doesn't add up, again, i will just repeat this i don't trust the fbi. they go in and they seize everything. 15 boxes? 15 boxes. and they are going to hold that over the president like a

blackmail scheme? this is what they hold it over your head like they did the collusion and like they did now hold it over your head to freeze the electorate and scare the republican primary voter think twice who you vote for. >> how could they at this point not pursue some kind of criminal case? think about the message that's been sent here. they sent the fbi to mar-a-lago the home of the former and possible future president of. are they going to say turns out it was just a little records issue so we will let that go. when the fbi comes to your home, it's a major step in a criminal process that usually leads to some form of prosecution. so how could they walk back from this now? again, did seems to me like they are building the momentum, january 6th. all of this leading up to this moment is meant to show that now they have no choice but to but the it to a d.c. jury, a d.c. judge, bring a federal charge against the former president of the united states, come what may for the country and we know it

would all be disaster. >> jesse: do you think the way they are acting that this is headed for trump in handcuffs? is that what they want? do they want to see the shot of him with his hands behind his back for real not like cortez but for real with real handcuffs? is that where this is going? >> i think if they could have gotten trump and his family members in handcuffs over russian collusion which was a massive lie which we all now know and that the corporate democrat media engaged in for years they would have done and it they would have been gleeful over it now once again we see while joe biden is in office and pray torian fbi and merrick garland doing his bidding unleashed. this is putting the country in a scary place tonight about what this looks like going forward. because if they don't file charges what was this all about, jesse? they send the fbi to the former president's home? that's quite a message. >> jesse: we have seen this where they do raids and don't file charges. cloud of suspicion hangs over

the republican? >> usually not against a former president. >> not against a former president. this has never happened before and i'm pretty connected with this country and i can feel it in my blood and i know how this country is going to feel tonight and how they are feeling now. and this is unacceptable and people are going to make their voices heard. thanks for joining us. tucker is up next. not even going to do it. >> tucker: a fox news alert. good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i'm will cain in for tucker. a little over ago, we learned that the biden administration raided the home of the former president donald trump in palm beach, florida. donald trump announced the raid in a statement. fox news confirmed that the raid occurred. quote, these are dark times for our nation, said the former president, as my beautiful home, mar-a-lago, in palm beach, florida, is currently under siege, occupiedy